Consigli per rendere accogliente una camera da letto minuscola (tipo, a New York e Tokyo, ma anche a Londra e Milano, il metro quadro è pesante e va sfruttato)
Money quote: "Due to the nature of our jobs, we are privy to a lot of chic, innovative spaces from around the world. A good chunk of these dream homes reside on the smaller end of the square foot spectrum, and come with a bevy of genius tips and tricks. So between coming in contact with a steady stream of tiny bedroom design inspo on the regular and dealing with our own area-averse spaces, suffice it to say we’ve seen (and tried) it all."
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-hacks-that-finally-saved-our-tiny-bedrooms
Money quote: "Due to the nature of our jobs, we are privy to a lot of chic, innovative spaces from around the world. A good chunk of these dream homes reside on the smaller end of the square foot spectrum, and come with a bevy of genius tips and tricks. So between coming in contact with a steady stream of tiny bedroom design inspo on the regular and dealing with our own area-averse spaces, suffice it to say we’ve seen (and tried) it all."
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-hacks-that-finally-saved-our-tiny-bedrooms
Pocket
The Hacks That Finally Saved Our Tiny Bedrooms
Here’s how Domino’s editors style their small spaces.
Se volete leggere un thread pazzesco su Twitter (o i relativi articoli) ecco a voi un caso di investigazione online per scoprire chi compra e vende animali esotici di specie protette a personalità e influencer online. Scandaloso e moralmente ripugnante
Money quote: "This is a multi-million dollar industry. Much like cars and watches, exotic animals such as tigers have a long history of being used as status symbols, particularly in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
However, keeping animals such as lions and tigers as ‘pets’ is problematic, causing harm to the animals’ physical and social well-being.
It can also be illegal, sustaining poaching and international organised crime. In 2017, the UAE adopted a law that prohibits individuals from owning, trading or transporting dangerous or exotic animals such as primates and big cats, placing heavy restrictions on facilities such as zoos and breeding centres that keep them."
https://twitter.com/eliothiggins/status/1358871618240589825?s=12
Money quote: "This is a multi-million dollar industry. Much like cars and watches, exotic animals such as tigers have a long history of being used as status symbols, particularly in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
However, keeping animals such as lions and tigers as ‘pets’ is problematic, causing harm to the animals’ physical and social well-being.
It can also be illegal, sustaining poaching and international organised crime. In 2017, the UAE adopted a law that prohibits individuals from owning, trading or transporting dangerous or exotic animals such as primates and big cats, placing heavy restrictions on facilities such as zoos and breeding centres that keep them."
https://twitter.com/eliothiggins/status/1358871618240589825?s=12
Twitter
Eliot Higgins
New investigation from @Bellingcat shows how influencers use services that provide monkeys, tigers, lions and cheetahs that they pose with in their Instagram posts that can be tracked to a shady network involved in the wildlife trade https://t.co/QJB6hc2gzX
Una cosa in php per generare ebook da soli
Money quote: "This PHP tool helps you write eBooks in markdown. Run ibis build and an eBook will be generated"
https://github.com/themsaid/ibis
Money quote: "This PHP tool helps you write eBooks in markdown. Run ibis build and an eBook will be generated"
https://github.com/themsaid/ibis
GitHub
GitHub - themsaid/ibis: A PHP tool that helps you write eBooks in markdown and convert to PDF.
A PHP tool that helps you write eBooks in markdown and convert to PDF. - themsaid/ibis
Ci credereste che è stato (per un periodo) il mio client di posta? Mutt alla versione 2.0
Money quote: "This release was bumped to 2.0, not because of the magnitude of features (which is actually smaller than past releases), but because of a few changes that are backward incompatible. Please read this list carefully to be aware of these changes"
http://www.mutt.org/relnotes/2.0/
Money quote: "This release was bumped to 2.0, not because of the magnitude of features (which is actually smaller than past releases), but because of a few changes that are backward incompatible. Please read this list carefully to be aware of these changes"
http://www.mutt.org/relnotes/2.0/
Il numero cento della mia newsletter, Mostly Weekly. In caso vi mancasse qualcosa da leggere
https://antoniodini.com/mostly/mostly-weekly/archivio/100.html
https://antoniodini.com/mostly/mostly-weekly/archivio/100.html
Mostly Here
[Mostly Weekly ~100]
I miei primi cento numeri
Una proposta per il bike-to-work: una alternativa alla mobilità tradizionale pagata (poco) dalle aziende
Money quote: "La proposta è quindi di destinare parte di queste risorse risparmiate per introdurre nelle varie realtà pubbliche e private un incentivo economico per promuovere il “bike-to-work”. In questo modo il lavoratore che sceglie la bici come modalità di trasporto potrebbe maturare mediamente intorno ai 50 euro al mese (considerando una decina di chilometri al giorno).
Se questa misura fosse stata adottata in primavera oggi un bike-to-worker mediamente avrebbe guadagnato 250 euro da spendere per una bici che gira effettivamente sulle strade italiane. Sebbene esistano esperienze pilota di cofinanziamento del bike-to-work queste richiedono un impegno delle aziende significativo. Per una realtà di 1.000 dipendenti ad esempio, considerando erogazione e iscrizione a piattaforme che gestiscono il sistema, si può arrivare a 40.000 euro annui."
https://altreconomia.it/mobilita-sostenibile-e-welfare-aziendale-una-proposta-oltre-i-bonus/
Money quote: "La proposta è quindi di destinare parte di queste risorse risparmiate per introdurre nelle varie realtà pubbliche e private un incentivo economico per promuovere il “bike-to-work”. In questo modo il lavoratore che sceglie la bici come modalità di trasporto potrebbe maturare mediamente intorno ai 50 euro al mese (considerando una decina di chilometri al giorno).
Se questa misura fosse stata adottata in primavera oggi un bike-to-worker mediamente avrebbe guadagnato 250 euro da spendere per una bici che gira effettivamente sulle strade italiane. Sebbene esistano esperienze pilota di cofinanziamento del bike-to-work queste richiedono un impegno delle aziende significativo. Per una realtà di 1.000 dipendenti ad esempio, considerando erogazione e iscrizione a piattaforme che gestiscono il sistema, si può arrivare a 40.000 euro annui."
https://altreconomia.it/mobilita-sostenibile-e-welfare-aziendale-una-proposta-oltre-i-bonus/
Altreconomia
Mobilità sostenibile e welfare aziendale: una proposta, oltre i bonus
Sui ticket restaurant imprese ed enti pubblici stanno maturando significativi risparmi. Si tratta di risorse dei lavoratori che saranno oggetto di contrattazione. Perché non destinarne una parte per incentivare la scelta della bici come modalità di trasporto?…
Forwarded from Riccardo
Ecco un intero libro* su come avere un ambiente di sviluppo senza mouse. Consiglio di rimediare una buona tastiera.
*: oppure un tutorial molto molto lungo, una specie di wiki stampato in PDF.
https://themouseless.dev/
*: oppure un tutorial molto molto lungo, una specie di wiki stampato in PDF.
https://themouseless.dev/
themouseless.dev
Do You Write Code With Your Mouse?
Building Your Mouseless Development Environment
C'è gente che guadagna meglio di quello che non pensate. E non sono pochi
Money quote: "My god. Look, the commenter had the self awareness to bring up regional cost of living and that not everyone can work at the FAMANGs of the world, but really? Getting $3.7 million dollars for just 7 years of work is, like, a bad deal?
To consider making $500K pa as a doable, realistic salary to be taken into account when deciding between starting a company or just seeking a job... Like us millennials say, "I can't. Even."
That annual salary far outstrips what I can reasonably expect to earn in a decade, and I'm a developer working for a fintech startup with a good couple of years under my belt. For most people in the world, $500K pa is a preposterous amount of money."
https://www.riknieu.com/the-gods-on-hackernews
Money quote: "My god. Look, the commenter had the self awareness to bring up regional cost of living and that not everyone can work at the FAMANGs of the world, but really? Getting $3.7 million dollars for just 7 years of work is, like, a bad deal?
To consider making $500K pa as a doable, realistic salary to be taken into account when deciding between starting a company or just seeking a job... Like us millennials say, "I can't. Even."
That annual salary far outstrips what I can reasonably expect to earn in a decade, and I'm a developer working for a fintech startup with a good couple of years under my belt. For most people in the world, $500K pa is a preposterous amount of money."
https://www.riknieu.com/the-gods-on-hackernews
Rik Nieu
The Gods on HackerNews
Every so often I encounter a comment on HackerNews that involuntarily makes my jaw drop, head shake and eyes water. It's usually concerning what some on HackerNews consider a 'worthwhile' amount of money you can earn as an entrepreneur VS being an employee.
Ma perché tutta questa enfasi sulle auto elettriche? Cosa c'è dietro? Chi ci guadagna? La triste realtà, per le menti che amano il complotto o semplicemente sono state bruciate dallo scetticismo sulla natura umana, è che in Europa abbiamo stabilito degli obiettivi per evitare di farci travolgere dall'inquinamento. Le soluzioni ibride non sono la risposta di politica ambientale giusta, anche se lo sono forse dal punto di vista dello sviluppo ingegneristico della ricerca.
Money quote: "In a bid to cut carbon emissions and air pollution, Norway exempts battery-driven cars from most taxes and offers benefits such as free parking and charging points to hasten a shift from diesel and petrol engines.
The independent Norwegian Road Federation (NRF) said on Wednesday that electric cars rose to 31.2 percent of all sales last year, from 20.8 percent in 2017 and just 5.5 percent in 2013, while sales of petrol and diesel cars plunged.
“It was a small step closer to the 2025 goal,” by which time Norway’s parliament wants all new cars to be emissions-free, Oeyvind Solberg Thorsen, head of the NRF, told a conference."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/norway-electric-cars-1.4963204
Money quote: "In a bid to cut carbon emissions and air pollution, Norway exempts battery-driven cars from most taxes and offers benefits such as free parking and charging points to hasten a shift from diesel and petrol engines.
The independent Norwegian Road Federation (NRF) said on Wednesday that electric cars rose to 31.2 percent of all sales last year, from 20.8 percent in 2017 and just 5.5 percent in 2013, while sales of petrol and diesel cars plunged.
“It was a small step closer to the 2025 goal,” by which time Norway’s parliament wants all new cars to be emissions-free, Oeyvind Solberg Thorsen, head of the NRF, told a conference."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/norway-electric-cars-1.4963204
CBC
Norway's incentives boost electric cars to 31% of new vehicle market | CBC News
Almost a third of new cars sold in Norway last year were pure electric, a new world record as the country strives to end sales of fossil-fuel vehicles by 2025.
Abbiamo tanti problemi. Uno di questi è dormire. Nel senso che ne abbiamo bisogno ma riusciamo sistematicamente a privarcene. Geni tutti.
Money quote: "“If we don’t continue to chip away at our collective delusion that burnout is the price we must pay for success, we’ll never be able to restore sleep to its rightful place in our lives,” Arianna Huffington wrote a couple of years ago, in her best-selling how-to guide “The Sleep Revolution.” By way of inspiration, she offered her own conversion story."
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/why-we-sleep-and-why-we-often-cant
Money quote: "“If we don’t continue to chip away at our collective delusion that burnout is the price we must pay for success, we’ll never be able to restore sleep to its rightful place in our lives,” Arianna Huffington wrote a couple of years ago, in her best-selling how-to guide “The Sleep Revolution.” By way of inspiration, she offered her own conversion story."
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/why-we-sleep-and-why-we-often-cant
The New Yorker
Why We Sleep, and Why We Often Can’t
Does our contemporary obsession with sleep obscure what makes it special in the first place?
In "Wonder Woman 1984" si sono dimenticati il vero superpotere dell'eroina DC - la mia recensione per Fumettologica
https://www.fumettologica.it/2021/02/wonder-woman-1984-recensione-film/
https://www.fumettologica.it/2021/02/wonder-woman-1984-recensione-film/
Fumettologica
In "Wonder Woman 1984" si sono dimenticati il vero superpotere dell'eroina DC
"Wonder Woman 1984", film di Patty Jenkins con Gal Gadot uscito in streaming per la pandemia ha un inaspettato problema di fondo.
HomePod Mini, la nostra recensione - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/homepod-mini-la-nostra-recensione/
https://www.macitynet.it/homepod-mini-la-nostra-recensione/
Secondo me questo è semplicemente uno psicopatico, non un artista. Comunque, ecco a voi le miniature d'autore che si possono trovare nascoste a giro per le grandi città europee. In lotta contro il sistema, con un esercito lillipiziano.
Money quote: "The Spanish sculptor Isaac Cordal sees the city as his playground. He specialises in miniature street art, producing tiny figures as a social commentary on the spaces they inhabit.
“My work is a filter to try to understand and change the world we have created,” Cordal says.
His sculptures, about 15cm in height, often represent a social stereotype as a critical observation on capitalism, power and bureaucracy."
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/dec/31/city-life-in-miniature-the-tiny-cement-sculptures-hidden-across-europe
Money quote: "The Spanish sculptor Isaac Cordal sees the city as his playground. He specialises in miniature street art, producing tiny figures as a social commentary on the spaces they inhabit.
“My work is a filter to try to understand and change the world we have created,” Cordal says.
His sculptures, about 15cm in height, often represent a social stereotype as a critical observation on capitalism, power and bureaucracy."
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/dec/31/city-life-in-miniature-the-tiny-cement-sculptures-hidden-across-europe
the Guardian
City life in miniature: the tiny cement sculptures hidden across Europe
Isaac Cordal’s 15cm sculptures, part of his project Cement Eclipses, are a social commentary on the spaces they inhabit
Forwarded from Social&Positive News - L'informazione che fa bene
🏛 #Scuola #Povertà
“Ero giunto alla conclusione che a mantenere i poveri in condizioni di povertà era l’assenza della politica dalla loro vita. Qui non intendo ‘politica’ nel senso di votare alle elezioni, ma nel senso in cui Tucidide usava questo termine, e cioè come un insieme di attività condotte con altre persone, a ogni livello, dalla famiglia al vicinato, dalla comunità allargata alla città-Stato”.
Prendetevi 10 minuti e leggete “Nella caverna di Platone”, un bellissimo saggio di Earl Shorris (1934-2012) che racconta, con grande forza narrativa, uno straordinario esperimento sociale compiuto a New York negli anni Novanta: insegnare i classici della filosofia a giovani che hanno abbandonato la scuola e vivono sotto la soglia di povertà.
Perché, scrive Shorris, ”la via d’uscita dalla povertà era la vita politica, ma per entrare nel mondo pubblico, per far pratica di vita politica, i poveri dovevano prima imparare a riflettere”.
I risultati ottenuti dal “Clemente course for the humanities”, promosso dallo stesso Shorris e da un gruppo di docenti volontari, andarono oltre ogni aspettativa e cambiarono la vita di molti giovani.
“La frequenza del Clemente Course costava circa duemila dollari a studente: a paragone della disoccupazione, dei sussidi o della galera, gli studi classici sono un affare”.
“Ero giunto alla conclusione che a mantenere i poveri in condizioni di povertà era l’assenza della politica dalla loro vita. Qui non intendo ‘politica’ nel senso di votare alle elezioni, ma nel senso in cui Tucidide usava questo termine, e cioè come un insieme di attività condotte con altre persone, a ogni livello, dalla famiglia al vicinato, dalla comunità allargata alla città-Stato”.
Prendetevi 10 minuti e leggete “Nella caverna di Platone”, un bellissimo saggio di Earl Shorris (1934-2012) che racconta, con grande forza narrativa, uno straordinario esperimento sociale compiuto a New York negli anni Novanta: insegnare i classici della filosofia a giovani che hanno abbandonato la scuola e vivono sotto la soglia di povertà.
Perché, scrive Shorris, ”la via d’uscita dalla povertà era la vita politica, ma per entrare nel mondo pubblico, per far pratica di vita politica, i poveri dovevano prima imparare a riflettere”.
I risultati ottenuti dal “Clemente course for the humanities”, promosso dallo stesso Shorris e da un gruppo di docenti volontari, andarono oltre ogni aspettativa e cambiarono la vita di molti giovani.
“La frequenza del Clemente Course costava circa duemila dollari a studente: a paragone della disoccupazione, dei sussidi o della galera, gli studi classici sono un affare”.
Uno script per dominarli tutti (sort of)
Money quote: "When I first started at my current job, I was using my personal laptop. Being a stickler for the separation between work-time and non-work-time, I would routinely open GitLab, ClickUp, Slack, Localhost, MAMP and VS Code in the morning and promptly close all those windows come 6 o'clock. I did this manually every day for weeks.
Eventually, I decided to write something that I can run once so that everything I needed open will open quickly."
https://dev.to/dmahely/one-bash-command-to-start-the-day-2fni
Money quote: "When I first started at my current job, I was using my personal laptop. Being a stickler for the separation between work-time and non-work-time, I would routinely open GitLab, ClickUp, Slack, Localhost, MAMP and VS Code in the morning and promptly close all those windows come 6 o'clock. I did this manually every day for weeks.
Eventually, I decided to write something that I can run once so that everything I needed open will open quickly."
https://dev.to/dmahely/one-bash-command-to-start-the-day-2fni
DEV Community
One bash command to start the day 🌅
How I prep my machine for the work day with one command ☝️
Una di quelle lunghe storie alle quali sono parecchio affezionato…
https://antoniodini.com/storie/orologi/anonimo-millemetri-1.html
https://antoniodini.com/storie/orologi/anonimo-millemetri-1.html
Mostly Here
Anonimo Millemetri Japan LE, la recensione – Parte prima di due
Cosa definisce il valore e l’unicità di un orologio? In quale modo è possibile raccontarlo? Come si fa a “provare” e “recensire” un orologio?
La seconda parte della storia di ieri sera
https://antoniodini.com/storie/orologi/anonimo-millemetri-2.html
https://antoniodini.com/storie/orologi/anonimo-millemetri-2.html
Mostly Here
Anonimo Millemetri Japan LE, la recensione – Parte seconda di due
Alla fine un orologio, se non ha strane complicazioni, serve a indicarti l’ora precisa al secondo e al massimo la data. O no?
La storia di quei pezzettini di plastica che in Italia praticamente non esistono ma che in America vengono usati per chiudere il sacchetto del pane: li produce una sola ditta
Money quote: "Floyd Paxton, Kwik Lok’s founder, was a second-generation manufacturing engineer who began his career working alongside his father, Hale, producing nail machines during World War II. Prior to the post-war plastics boom, both Paxton and his father produced, among other things, the nails used to close wooden boxes of fruit. In other words, package sealing was in Paxton’s blood."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/bread-tabs-clips-paxton
Money quote: "Floyd Paxton, Kwik Lok’s founder, was a second-generation manufacturing engineer who began his career working alongside his father, Hale, producing nail machines during World War II. Prior to the post-war plastics boom, both Paxton and his father produced, among other things, the nails used to close wooden boxes of fruit. In other words, package sealing was in Paxton’s blood."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/bread-tabs-clips-paxton
Atlas Obscura
Most of the World’s Bread Clips Are Made by a Single Company
A brief history of the Kwik Lok Closure.
Dicono tutti: Kodachrome era una figata. Ma i ricordi sono vaghi, e riferiti alle ultime versioni. Il vero Kodachrome, quello cantato da Paul Simon, sta solo negli anni quaranta in Florida. Altro che.
Gran belle foto.
Money quote: "The 1940s weren’t all shades of brown, ravaged by war, shaped by fear and filmed in black and white. In Florida, USA, there were holidays in the glorious colors of Kodachrome."
https://flashbak.com/1940s-florida-in-kodachrome-412315/
Gran belle foto.
Money quote: "The 1940s weren’t all shades of brown, ravaged by war, shaped by fear and filmed in black and white. In Florida, USA, there were holidays in the glorious colors of Kodachrome."
https://flashbak.com/1940s-florida-in-kodachrome-412315/
Flashbak
1940s Florida in the Glorious Colors of Kodachrome - Flashbak
The Florida sun seems not much a single thing overhead but a set of klieg lights that pursue you everywhere with an even white illumination. – John Updike, Rabbit at Rest The 1940s weren’t all shades of brown, ravaged by war, shaped by fear and filmed in black…